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Steve Askey

Head VFX

Steve is a visual effects artist who has worked on over forty short films. With twenty years in the creative industry, he started his career as a 3D artist and designer where he took hundreds of 3D animation and motion graphics projects through to completion. He also spent much of that time as a qualified trainer, teaching 3D and compositing software to many small classes.

Since making the move to visual effects, his previous skills have all added to his abilities as a visual effects generalist. Whether it's set extensions and green screen work, 3D models and characters combined with live action, or even simple wire/boom removal and invisible cleanup work, he's more than willing to come up with the most efficient way to put your vision on the screen, however big or small.

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